YEREVAN. – At the time it was said that the 1995 Constitution of Armenia was a means to eternalizing the “dictatorship” of then-President Levon Ter-Petrosyan, wrote Aravot daily.

“But unlike today, the six opposition [political] parties [at the time] had designed an alternate version of the Basic Law to show how a democratic constitution should be.

“[And] the alternative to the dictatorial (‘Pro-Levon’) Constitution was, yes, parliamentary governance which, as it turns out today, is likewise dictatorial, and the President of the National Assembly [of Armenia] will be the general dictator,” wrote Aravot.

Chapters 1 through 7 of the new draft Constitution of Armenia were made public on July 15. Accordingly, the country will make a transition from a semi-presidential to a parliamentary system of governance.